I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Billy Joel
Recitation: by Male by Female
I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in my mother's employer's family room, watching my mother clean while I waited for her to finish so we could go home.
Jesmyn Ward
FamilyMotherHomeThoughtSitting
'Black Watch' has taken its place in the canon of Scottish theatre, and that's fantastic. It's a very particular kind of theatre. It's about the music, the movement, the whole 'event' of it.
John Tiffany
MusicTheatreBlackPlaceKind
I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.
Steve Carell
GoodSelf-ConfidenceKindNatural
We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.
Travis Kalanick
TruthEvilDarkDangerousOutSide
Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you.
Tony Bennett
SingingSongThinkingYouInside
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
Rupert Murdoch
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Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.
Mary Douglas
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It's a beautiful thing, baseball.
Miguel Cabrera
BeautifulBaseballBeautiful Thing
Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.
Minnie Driver
CelebrityNavigateTrickyVeryArea
I want to have a lengthy career. I want to play interesting characters. I want to tell beautiful stories, complex stories, deep stories.
Jovan Adepo
BeautifulDeepInterestingCareer
Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.
Placido Domingo
StepMeDownGoHalfStill
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney J. Harris
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